A report from yesterday that Keith Richards had mixed some of his father's ashes up with some cocaine and snorted it has been quickly denied by the Rolling Stone.
Keith has issues a statement on their website www.rollingstones.com saying "The complete story is lost in the usual slanting! The truth of the matter is that I planted a sturdy English Oak.""I took the lid off the box of ashes and he is now growing oak trees and would love me for it!!! I was trying to say how tight Bert and I were. That tight!!! I wouldn't take cocaine at this point in my life unless I wished to commit suicide."
The statement is in response to an interview Richards did with NME where told the mag, "The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow ... . It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."
The world was shocked that Richards could do such a thing, but forgets that the man - who often sports the vintage "I'm melting, I'm melting" look first seen in 1939 by the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz - recently took quite a fall in Fuji only to be saved by some brain surgery in New Zealand and has famously survived a lifetime of near death experiences caused by drugs and other daredevil behaviour.
So er, maybe next time we should take what he says with a grain of salt, hey?
In summary - Keith Richards may or may not have once snorted his father's ashes! (How's that for a story?)
